Germans and African Americans
Subtitle: two centuries of exchange
By: edited by Larry A. Greene and Anke Ortlepp
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781604737844; 9781604737851
Subjects: Race relations; African Americans; Relations with Germans; Germans; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : African Americans in the German Democratic Republic / Victor Grossman; title: An unexpected alliance : August Willich, Peter H. Clark, and the abolitionist movement in Cincinnati / Mischa Honeck; title: German immigrants and African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, 1850-1880 / Jeffery Strickland; title: Louis Douglas and the Weimar reception of Harlemania / Leroy Hopkins; title: Race in the Reich : the African American press on Nazi Germany / Larry A. Greene; title: Field trip into the twilight : a German Africanist discovers the Black bourgeoisie at Howard University, 1937-1939 / Berndt Ostendorf; title: Love across the color line : the limits of German and American democracy, 1945-1968 / Maria Höhn; title: The erotics of African American endurance, or, On the right side of history : White (West)-German public sentiment between pornotroping and civil rights solidarity / Sabine Broeck; title: "Nazi Jim Crow" : Hans Jürgen Massaquoi's democratic vistas on the Black Atlantic and Afro-Germans in Ebony / Frank Mehring; title: A raisin in the East : African American civil rights drama in GDR scholarship and theater practice / Astrid Haas; title: Ollie Harrington : his portrait drawn on the basis of East German (GDR) secret service files / Aribert Schroeder; title: Exploding Hitler and Americanizing Germany : occupying "Black" bodies and postwar desire / Damani Partridge; title: Reconstructing "America" : the development of African American studies in the Federal Republic of Germany / Eva Boesenberg.